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and son of the before-mentioned John Gough. His herbarium, as 

 well as that of his father, have been at my service for the purpose 

 of reference. From this source it appears that Longsleddale and 

 the district immediately around Kendal were Dr. Gough's chief 

 hunting-grounds. His specimens are mostly without dates, as are 

 those of the late Dr. Frederick Clowes, of Bowness, who kindly 

 presented to me his mosses and some of his botanical corre- 

 spondence. This latter gentleman collected mosses in 1854 and 

 1855 chiefly near Windermere and the adjoining hills to the north 

 and east. Dr. Gough's mosses were gathered between 1848 and 1855. 



About 1867 the late Mr. G. E. Hunt, of Manchester, an ardent, 

 devoted, and promising bryologist, a veritable Nimrod among 

 British Mosses, visited the English Lake District. 



Amongst the resident bryologists must be included Mr. John 

 Atkinson, of Bowness, now dead. He collected during several 

 years, and was at work in the early 'sixties/ but I know little about 

 his plants. 



This list, so far as the Musci are concerned, owes not a little ot 

 its comprehensiveness to the labours of my dear friend and 

 neighbour, the late Mr. J. M. Barnes. He and my friend, Mr. J. A. 

 Martindale, of Staveley, were for several years my most frequent 

 companions in botanical rambles. By the use of Mr. Barnes 

 collections I have been enabled to incorporate much of his work 

 into this list. He was the first to find Sphagnum Austinii in 

 England, and his discovery of Amblystegium co?ifervoides at Barrow 

 Field was the second known habitat in Britain. But more than this, 

 he was the discoverer of Bryam Barnesii\ a species new to science. 



I have still another important worker to include, in the person 

 of the Rev. C. H. Binstead, a quondam resident, but now of 

 Eardisley, Herefordshire. Whilst working at our mosses generalh 

 he devoted his attention more particularly to some of the more 

 difficult genera, especially to that of Grimmia f and his great per- 

 severance, combined with keenness of perception, has produced 

 good results. 



Many others, mostly non-resident, have taken part in the work, not 

 least among them being the amiable and acute working-man Lancashire 

 and Yorkshire botanist, John Nowell, of Todmorden, the first to 

 discover Habrodon Notarisii in this country, beside Rydal Lake, 

 where it may still be found. I must be content to mention the 

 names of several others, merely giving as far as I am able the 

 dates of their visits, viz. :— Dr. J. B. Wood, Broughton, Manchester 

 (1868); George E. Davies, Brighton (1871); Dr. R. Braithwaite, 

 London; Henry Boswell, M.A., Oxford (1870-73-76); J. Cash, 



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